Dolly Alderton Books in Order

Dolly Alderton recounts growing up and navigating her twenties through friendships, dating, work, parties, and loss. Her memoir explores romantic disappointments alongside the enduring support of female friendships and the changing understanding of love that comes with adulthood.

Food writer Nina Dean finds an apparently ideal partner through a dating app, only for him to disappear without explanation. His silence coincides with her father’s worsening dementia, strained friendships, and professional frustrations, forcing Nina to confront several kinds of absence and change.

Dolly Alderton gathers advice from her column on dating, friendship, family and the complications of everyday relationships. Drawing on personal experience, she responds to readers’ dilemmas with humor and empathy, considering loneliness, breakups and the search for lasting connection.

Struggling comedian Andy is left without a home after Jen ends their relationship. Hoping to win her back, he searches for an explanation, while friends move ahead with their lives and her side of the story challenges his assumptions.